Helena Liu
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781529200041
- eISBN:
- 9781529200096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529200041.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
This chapter canvasses recent global events including white nationalist rallies in the United States, the protectionist vote for Brexit, and the mainstreaming of racist far-right political groups ...
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This chapter canvasses recent global events including white nationalist rallies in the United States, the protectionist vote for Brexit, and the mainstreaming of racist far-right political groups across Europe. It then turns to the landscape of leadership and organisations and discusses how the backlash that we have observed against diversity is institutionalised in business practice. The chapter lays the groundwork to interrogate the violences of leadership theorising and practice in more depth as well as provide ways forward through anti-racist feminist resistance.Less
This chapter canvasses recent global events including white nationalist rallies in the United States, the protectionist vote for Brexit, and the mainstreaming of racist far-right political groups across Europe. It then turns to the landscape of leadership and organisations and discusses how the backlash that we have observed against diversity is institutionalised in business practice. The chapter lays the groundwork to interrogate the violences of leadership theorising and practice in more depth as well as provide ways forward through anti-racist feminist resistance.
Rodney A. Smolla
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501749650
- eISBN:
- 9781501749674
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0027
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses the Silver Valley Redneck Revolt that traveled to Charlottesville to participate in the August 12 rally. It explains that the Redneck Revolt is a national movement that was ...
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This chapter discusses the Silver Valley Redneck Revolt that traveled to Charlottesville to participate in the August 12 rally. It explains that the Redneck Revolt is a national movement that was founded in 2016 as an anti-racist and anti-fascist community defense formation. It also discloses that the Redneck Revolt is a part of the “armed left” that emphasizes being armed in defense of leftist groups that seek to counter supremacist groups like the alt-right or the Ku Klux Klan. The chapter analyzes the Redneck Revolt's use of the term “redneck,” which was a point of pride in a deliberate effort to counter the perceived views of the elites. It mentions Dwayne E. Dixon, a member of Redneck Revolt who defied traditional stereotypes.Less
This chapter discusses the Silver Valley Redneck Revolt that traveled to Charlottesville to participate in the August 12 rally. It explains that the Redneck Revolt is a national movement that was founded in 2016 as an anti-racist and anti-fascist community defense formation. It also discloses that the Redneck Revolt is a part of the “armed left” that emphasizes being armed in defense of leftist groups that seek to counter supremacist groups like the alt-right or the Ku Klux Klan. The chapter analyzes the Redneck Revolt's use of the term “redneck,” which was a point of pride in a deliberate effort to counter the perceived views of the elites. It mentions Dwayne E. Dixon, a member of Redneck Revolt who defied traditional stereotypes.
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz and Eduardo Mendieta
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823241354
- eISBN:
- 9780823241392
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823241354.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation ...
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This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation and what has been called the “decolonial turn” in social theory, theology, and philosophy. This collection is focuses on the different ways in which Latina/o thinkers, activists, and public intellectuals are producing knowledge that addresses the unique social location of Latinas/os in the US. Instead of continuing to be represented, this group of scholars show the unsuspecting and original ways in which Latina/o locations in the US can be generative places for the development of new matrixes of knowledge. The book, thus, articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding of not simply Latina/os, but also US citizens in this new age of post-colonialism and globalization.Less
This anthology gathers the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosopher who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines from the standpoint of liberation and what has been called the “decolonial turn” in social theory, theology, and philosophy. This collection is focuses on the different ways in which Latina/o thinkers, activists, and public intellectuals are producing knowledge that addresses the unique social location of Latinas/os in the US. Instead of continuing to be represented, this group of scholars show the unsuspecting and original ways in which Latina/o locations in the US can be generative places for the development of new matrixes of knowledge. The book, thus, articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding of not simply Latina/os, but also US citizens in this new age of post-colonialism and globalization.
Clare Croft (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199377329
- eISBN:
- 9780199377350
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199377329.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of ...
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Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of social change. It considers how queer dance has political potential and how it could productively challenge more conservative dance forms, both in terms of making meaning and in terms of institutional practices. Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project—book, website, and live performance series—to ask: “What does dancing queerly challenge us toward?” The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online, stage a wide range of genders and sexualities as a way to challenge and destabilize social norms. Queer dance is a coalitional project, a gathering that works across LGBTQ identities and in concert with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial artmaking, activism, and scholarship. The book engages with dance-making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and a host of other fields, always asking how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. Might the slide of a hand across a hipbone be just as much an act of coming out as an announcement offered in words? How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might be revealed about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?Less
Queer Dance argues that dance has a particular charge in the larger field of queer activism and study because it emphasizes and offers language for how public, physical action can be a force of social change. It considers how queer dance has political potential and how it could productively challenge more conservative dance forms, both in terms of making meaning and in terms of institutional practices. Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project—book, website, and live performance series—to ask: “What does dancing queerly challenge us toward?” The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online, stage a wide range of genders and sexualities as a way to challenge and destabilize social norms. Queer dance is a coalitional project, a gathering that works across LGBTQ identities and in concert with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial artmaking, activism, and scholarship. The book engages with dance-making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and a host of other fields, always asking how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. Might the slide of a hand across a hipbone be just as much an act of coming out as an announcement offered in words? How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might be revealed about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?
Roderick A. Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines how the historiographic framework advanced by Racial Formation in the United States occludes anti-racist movements that were initiated by women of color and queers of color. It ...
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This chapter examines how the historiographic framework advanced by Racial Formation in the United States occludes anti-racist movements that were initiated by women of color and queers of color. It reperiodizes anti-racist politics according to the emergence of those movements constituted by people of color who were marginalized by sexuality and gender in order to highlight the specificities of civil rights and national liberation movements. It also considers how race and anti-racist politics were rearticulated in the very moments that Michael Omi and Howard Winant characterize as marked by anti-racist fragmentation. It argues that Omi and Winant's attention to the emergence of the New Right in the 1980s obscures the proliferation of feminist and queer organizing that took place during this period that made strident anti-racist claims.Less
This chapter examines how the historiographic framework advanced by Racial Formation in the United States occludes anti-racist movements that were initiated by women of color and queers of color. It reperiodizes anti-racist politics according to the emergence of those movements constituted by people of color who were marginalized by sexuality and gender in order to highlight the specificities of civil rights and national liberation movements. It also considers how race and anti-racist politics were rearticulated in the very moments that Michael Omi and Howard Winant characterize as marked by anti-racist fragmentation. It argues that Omi and Winant's attention to the emergence of the New Right in the 1980s obscures the proliferation of feminist and queer organizing that took place during this period that made strident anti-racist claims.
Winona Landis
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496827029
- eISBN:
- 9781496827067
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496827029.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter explores the use of comics as pedagogical tools in interdisciplinary courses such as Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. Specifically, the chapter investigates the ways in which the ...
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This chapter explores the use of comics as pedagogical tools in interdisciplinary courses such as Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. Specifically, the chapter investigates the ways in which the superhero comic Ms. Marvel is an important example of feminist and anti-racist pedagogy for these courses. By framing the textual analysis of the comic through gender and critical race theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Shireen Roshanravan, the chapter demonstrates the ways in which Kamala Khan, the protagonist, grapples with villains and difficulties that reflect the societal issues of sexism, racism, and Islamophobia. Kamala Khan’s battle against injustice resonates with many readers’ everyday experiences, and disrupts both genre-based and hegemonic structures of oppression and heroism. By teaching Ms. Marvel through the lens of gender studies and critical ethnic studies, this text enables students to gain a new perspective on race, justice, and “terror,” which allows them to be more just, empathetic learners.Less
This chapter explores the use of comics as pedagogical tools in interdisciplinary courses such as Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. Specifically, the chapter investigates the ways in which the superhero comic Ms. Marvel is an important example of feminist and anti-racist pedagogy for these courses. By framing the textual analysis of the comic through gender and critical race theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Shireen Roshanravan, the chapter demonstrates the ways in which Kamala Khan, the protagonist, grapples with villains and difficulties that reflect the societal issues of sexism, racism, and Islamophobia. Kamala Khan’s battle against injustice resonates with many readers’ everyday experiences, and disrupts both genre-based and hegemonic structures of oppression and heroism. By teaching Ms. Marvel through the lens of gender studies and critical ethnic studies, this text enables students to gain a new perspective on race, justice, and “terror,” which allows them to be more just, empathetic learners.
Robin Anne Reid
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496811523
- eISBN:
- 9781496811561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496811523.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Robin Anne Reid, in “Bending Culture: Racebending.com’s Protests Against Media Whitewashing,” ruminates on the extent to which the gap between the categories of cultural, or fan activism, and ...
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Robin Anne Reid, in “Bending Culture: Racebending.com’s Protests Against Media Whitewashing,” ruminates on the extent to which the gap between the categories of cultural, or fan activism, and political activism may be changing, especially with regard to younger people participating in online activist sites. Reid concentrates her inquiry on one internet community, Racebending.com, which originated in a protest against the casting of white actors in M. Night Shyamalan live-action adaptation The Last Airbender (2010). She argues that the group’s online activities since the release of the film shows the overlap between fan and political activism, thereby demonstrating connections between critical race and intersectional studies.Less
Robin Anne Reid, in “Bending Culture: Racebending.com’s Protests Against Media Whitewashing,” ruminates on the extent to which the gap between the categories of cultural, or fan activism, and political activism may be changing, especially with regard to younger people participating in online activist sites. Reid concentrates her inquiry on one internet community, Racebending.com, which originated in a protest against the casting of white actors in M. Night Shyamalan live-action adaptation The Last Airbender (2010). She argues that the group’s online activities since the release of the film shows the overlap between fan and political activism, thereby demonstrating connections between critical race and intersectional studies.
Charlotte Williams
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307082
- eISBN:
- 9781447312123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307082.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter looks at the strategies for implementing anti-racist practice. In the 1980s the anti-racist social work movement argued that effective anti-racist practice would also require the ...
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This chapter looks at the strategies for implementing anti-racist practice. In the 1980s the anti-racist social work movement argued that effective anti-racist practice would also require the significant recruitment of black and Asian workers who could challenge practice on the frontline and change the culture of social work organisations. This chapter revisits some of the early 1980s debates and traces the history of the anti-racist social work movement and the role of early leaders of that movement. But rather than an overt focus on policy regimes and bureaucracies, which many in the 1980s became concerned to focus on, it argues we need to look at the practices and the networks of anti-racist practitioners ‘the catalysers’ who can bring about significant organisational changes to services.Less
This chapter looks at the strategies for implementing anti-racist practice. In the 1980s the anti-racist social work movement argued that effective anti-racist practice would also require the significant recruitment of black and Asian workers who could challenge practice on the frontline and change the culture of social work organisations. This chapter revisits some of the early 1980s debates and traces the history of the anti-racist social work movement and the role of early leaders of that movement. But rather than an overt focus on policy regimes and bureaucracies, which many in the 1980s became concerned to focus on, it argues we need to look at the practices and the networks of anti-racist practitioners ‘the catalysers’ who can bring about significant organisational changes to services.
Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781683402046
- eISBN:
- 9781683402947
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683402046.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This interview features Mónica Carrillo, an Afro-Peruvian artist, activist and scholar. Carrillo offers insights on the way she and her organization use digital tools in order to advance anti-racist ...
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This interview features Mónica Carrillo, an Afro-Peruvian artist, activist and scholar. Carrillo offers insights on the way she and her organization use digital tools in order to advance anti-racist and Afro-Latinx digital practices. As both a member of LUNDU, the Center for the Study and Promotion of Afro-Peruvians, and as a visual digital artist, Monica Carrillo discusses diverse forms in which Afro-Latinx communities in the Americas manage to stay connected, intervene, and counter-attack racist and colonial spaces through a productive combination of digital and analog strategies.Less
This interview features Mónica Carrillo, an Afro-Peruvian artist, activist and scholar. Carrillo offers insights on the way she and her organization use digital tools in order to advance anti-racist and Afro-Latinx digital practices. As both a member of LUNDU, the Center for the Study and Promotion of Afro-Peruvians, and as a visual digital artist, Monica Carrillo discusses diverse forms in which Afro-Latinx communities in the Americas manage to stay connected, intervene, and counter-attack racist and colonial spaces through a productive combination of digital and analog strategies.
Kalwant Bhopal
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347961
- eISBN:
- 9781447303916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347961.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter discusses some aspects of good practice in a mixed comprehensive school in a rural village. It argues that the rural setting has an effect on anti-racist strategies, issues of ...
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This chapter discusses some aspects of good practice in a mixed comprehensive school in a rural village. It argues that the rural setting has an effect on anti-racist strategies, issues of segregation, and integration and curriculum content for Gypsy Traveller pupils. The chapter also emphasises the need for policy makers to consider the racism that is faced by a lot of Gypsy Traveller pupils. The development of innovative practice that meets the needs of pupils with nomadic lifestyles which present significant challenges to educators and local education authorities is also considered.Less
This chapter discusses some aspects of good practice in a mixed comprehensive school in a rural village. It argues that the rural setting has an effect on anti-racist strategies, issues of segregation, and integration and curriculum content for Gypsy Traveller pupils. The chapter also emphasises the need for policy makers to consider the racism that is faced by a lot of Gypsy Traveller pupils. The development of innovative practice that meets the needs of pupils with nomadic lifestyles which present significant challenges to educators and local education authorities is also considered.
Monique Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781496835482
- eISBN:
- 9781496835536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496835482.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Google W. Kamau Bell and he appears to have been everywhere. His is a distinct anti-racist perspective in blogs, podcasts, magazine essays, a televised series, and CDs of his standup work. From a ...
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Google W. Kamau Bell and he appears to have been everywhere. His is a distinct anti-racist perspective in blogs, podcasts, magazine essays, a televised series, and CDs of his standup work. From a broad comedy universe, Bell tackles the contradiction of racism in a (so-called) post-racial age head-on. In a world where old media meets new, W. Kamau Bell embodies a current generation of comedians who fit squarely with critic Megan Garber’s claim that comedians are the new public intellectual. The ways in which Bell stands flat-footed and talks race in an age of postrace is reviewed systematically in this chapter by Monique Taylor, through what Bertram Ashe calls the post-soul matrix—an analytical framework for cataloguing the artistic sensibilities of an African American generation that relies on fluid rather than fixed markers or containers of “blackness.”Less
Google W. Kamau Bell and he appears to have been everywhere. His is a distinct anti-racist perspective in blogs, podcasts, magazine essays, a televised series, and CDs of his standup work. From a broad comedy universe, Bell tackles the contradiction of racism in a (so-called) post-racial age head-on. In a world where old media meets new, W. Kamau Bell embodies a current generation of comedians who fit squarely with critic Megan Garber’s claim that comedians are the new public intellectual. The ways in which Bell stands flat-footed and talks race in an age of postrace is reviewed systematically in this chapter by Monique Taylor, through what Bertram Ashe calls the post-soul matrix—an analytical framework for cataloguing the artistic sensibilities of an African American generation that relies on fluid rather than fixed markers or containers of “blackness.”
Nitasha Sharma
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823278602
- eISBN:
- 9780823280629
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823278602.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Situated adjacent to present-day student protests calling for more diversity with regard to program, department, and faculty hiring, Sharma recounts the contested formation of Asian American studies ...
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Situated adjacent to present-day student protests calling for more diversity with regard to program, department, and faculty hiring, Sharma recounts the contested formation of Asian American studies at her home institution, Northwestern Univversity.Less
Situated adjacent to present-day student protests calling for more diversity with regard to program, department, and faculty hiring, Sharma recounts the contested formation of Asian American studies at her home institution, Northwestern Univversity.
Christina L. Moss and Brandon Inabinet
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781496836144
- eISBN:
- 9781496836199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496836144.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
In addition to summarizing the book and previewing the chapters, the this introduction by Christina L. Moss and Brandon Inabinet offers an agenda for an actively antiracist approach to regions. ...
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In addition to summarizing the book and previewing the chapters, the this introduction by Christina L. Moss and Brandon Inabinet offers an agenda for an actively antiracist approach to regions. Starting from Ibram X. Kendi’s experience of the South, the introduction then surveys critics’ imagined marginality in the field of rhetorical studies to review the dangers of white male nostalgia and sense of slight. To escape this, the introduction offers Reconstruction as a political act of reckoning that scholars and critics of the South too need to embrace. The chapter previews demonstrate great models for this work, and the introduction even goes further by offering a pathway for future scholarship in this broad program of an actively antiracist reconstruction of Southern rhetoric.Less
In addition to summarizing the book and previewing the chapters, the this introduction by Christina L. Moss and Brandon Inabinet offers an agenda for an actively antiracist approach to regions. Starting from Ibram X. Kendi’s experience of the South, the introduction then surveys critics’ imagined marginality in the field of rhetorical studies to review the dangers of white male nostalgia and sense of slight. To escape this, the introduction offers Reconstruction as a political act of reckoning that scholars and critics of the South too need to embrace. The chapter previews demonstrate great models for this work, and the introduction even goes further by offering a pathway for future scholarship in this broad program of an actively antiracist reconstruction of Southern rhetoric.
Michael Lavalette and Laura Penketh (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307082
- eISBN:
- 9781447312123
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307082.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This book draws together a range of writers to consider aspects of ‘race’, racism and contemporary social work. It considers the development of anti-racist social work theory and practice within the ...
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This book draws together a range of writers to consider aspects of ‘race’, racism and contemporary social work. It considers the development of anti-racist social work theory and practice within the shifting terrain of the politics of ‘race’ within modern Britain. Included in the collection are chapters looking at developments within anti-racist social work theory and practice, including discussion of the impact of neo-liberalism on black and Asian communities, the strengths and problems associated with notions of ‘cultural competencies’, the development of an analysis of ‘xeno-racism’ and considerations of the role of black and Asian workers as ‘catalysers’ of change. Significantly for a text on anti-racist social work and there are chapters on anti-Semitism, anti-Roma racism and Islamophobia. Further chapters include discussion of asylum-seeking young people, debates around the politics of ‘street-grooming’, a qualified defence of ‘multiculturalism, an analysis of the impact of austerity measures on services for minority communities, a policy analysis of the implications of the ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism strategy and its implications for welfare workers, and an analysis of the role of migrant workers within the social care sector. Collectively the book opens up significant areas of debate and analysis within social work that students, practitioners and researchers need to fully engage with. It intends to act as a stimulus for further research and debate in this important area of social work theory and practice.Less
This book draws together a range of writers to consider aspects of ‘race’, racism and contemporary social work. It considers the development of anti-racist social work theory and practice within the shifting terrain of the politics of ‘race’ within modern Britain. Included in the collection are chapters looking at developments within anti-racist social work theory and practice, including discussion of the impact of neo-liberalism on black and Asian communities, the strengths and problems associated with notions of ‘cultural competencies’, the development of an analysis of ‘xeno-racism’ and considerations of the role of black and Asian workers as ‘catalysers’ of change. Significantly for a text on anti-racist social work and there are chapters on anti-Semitism, anti-Roma racism and Islamophobia. Further chapters include discussion of asylum-seeking young people, debates around the politics of ‘street-grooming’, a qualified defence of ‘multiculturalism, an analysis of the impact of austerity measures on services for minority communities, a policy analysis of the implications of the ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism strategy and its implications for welfare workers, and an analysis of the role of migrant workers within the social care sector. Collectively the book opens up significant areas of debate and analysis within social work that students, practitioners and researchers need to fully engage with. It intends to act as a stimulus for further research and debate in this important area of social work theory and practice.
Anne Stefani
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813060767
- eISBN:
- 9780813051260
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813060767.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book studies the experiences and evolution of a significant number of white southern women who confronted white supremacy in the South between the 1920s and the 1960s. For white women reformers, ...
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This book studies the experiences and evolution of a significant number of white southern women who confronted white supremacy in the South between the 1920s and the 1960s. For white women reformers, involvement in the struggle for African Americans' civil rights accompanied their own complex process of personal emancipation from gender and racial norms. This study examines in depth the paradoxical identity of these women. As members of the white community in the segregationist South, they belonged to the “oppressor” group. Yet, as women in a patriarchal society, they could also be considered “victims.” These women’s double identity forced them to confront their native culture while remaining deeply attached to the South. The result was the development of a special brand of female activism, which emancipated them from white patriarchy while combatting white supremacy. Taking the 1954 Brown decision as a pivot, the study draws together two generations embracing different approaches to segregation, from the most moderate to the most radical, but sharing enough characteristics to be identified as a specific subgroup within the southern population. It expands knowledge of the “long” civil rights movement by bringing to light the contribution of a large number of white anti-racist activists who, except for a few of them, have remained unknown to the public.Less
This book studies the experiences and evolution of a significant number of white southern women who confronted white supremacy in the South between the 1920s and the 1960s. For white women reformers, involvement in the struggle for African Americans' civil rights accompanied their own complex process of personal emancipation from gender and racial norms. This study examines in depth the paradoxical identity of these women. As members of the white community in the segregationist South, they belonged to the “oppressor” group. Yet, as women in a patriarchal society, they could also be considered “victims.” These women’s double identity forced them to confront their native culture while remaining deeply attached to the South. The result was the development of a special brand of female activism, which emancipated them from white patriarchy while combatting white supremacy. Taking the 1954 Brown decision as a pivot, the study draws together two generations embracing different approaches to segregation, from the most moderate to the most radical, but sharing enough characteristics to be identified as a specific subgroup within the southern population. It expands knowledge of the “long” civil rights movement by bringing to light the contribution of a large number of white anti-racist activists who, except for a few of them, have remained unknown to the public.
Jordan T. Camp
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520281813
- eISBN:
- 9780520957688
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520281813.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter focuses on the struggles over the meaning of the post-Katrina New Orleans crisis. It also interrogates how the crisis was seen as an opportunity to confront the racist and revanchist ...
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This chapter focuses on the struggles over the meaning of the post-Katrina New Orleans crisis. It also interrogates how the crisis was seen as an opportunity to confront the racist and revanchist common sense underpinning the neoliberal state and complete the unfinished business of the long civil rights movement. While dominant representations criminalized Black and poor hurricane victims, the interventions of anti-racist activists and artists made possible a shift away from dominant perspectives and toward the poor and the working class as the “source of historical definition.” Ultimately, the Katrina crisis led to a public debate about race, class, and gender inequality on a scale not witnessed since the Los Angeles 1992 uprising.Less
This chapter focuses on the struggles over the meaning of the post-Katrina New Orleans crisis. It also interrogates how the crisis was seen as an opportunity to confront the racist and revanchist common sense underpinning the neoliberal state and complete the unfinished business of the long civil rights movement. While dominant representations criminalized Black and poor hurricane victims, the interventions of anti-racist activists and artists made possible a shift away from dominant perspectives and toward the poor and the working class as the “source of historical definition.” Ultimately, the Katrina crisis led to a public debate about race, class, and gender inequality on a scale not witnessed since the Los Angeles 1992 uprising.
Gurnam Singh
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307082
- eISBN:
- 9781447312123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307082.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter looks back at the development of anti-racist social work and traces the intellectual journey that it has been through over the last 20 years. PCF domain 8 requires social workers to be ...
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This chapter looks back at the development of anti-racist social work and traces the intellectual journey that it has been through over the last 20 years. PCF domain 8 requires social workers to be aware of the changing contexts within which social work takes place and social work and social care organizations operate and function. The chapter looks at the recent history of anti-racist social work and ‘sets the scene’ for many of the debates that follow and argues that need to re-think understandings’ of anti-racism need too the rethought in the context of shifting politics and race, difference and diversity.Less
This chapter looks back at the development of anti-racist social work and traces the intellectual journey that it has been through over the last 20 years. PCF domain 8 requires social workers to be aware of the changing contexts within which social work takes place and social work and social care organizations operate and function. The chapter looks at the recent history of anti-racist social work and ‘sets the scene’ for many of the debates that follow and argues that need to re-think understandings’ of anti-racism need too the rethought in the context of shifting politics and race, difference and diversity.
Špela Urh
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307082
- eISBN:
- 9781447312123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307082.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Around 10 and 15 million Roma live in Europe, where cultural diversity is among the European Union’s officially declared values. However, the Roma are not recognised as representatives of this idea, ...
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Around 10 and 15 million Roma live in Europe, where cultural diversity is among the European Union’s officially declared values. However, the Roma are not recognised as representatives of this idea, but have become the European “Other”, perceived as a threat to the dominant society both with their nomadism and their settlement. Roma “otherness” was, and still is, seen in explicit forms of racism in the past (geographical persecution, assimilation strategies, genocide, sterilization) and more implicit forms in the present (nimbisms, ignorance, special school placement). The article looks at these aspects of Roma oppression but also points to examples of good practice from the perspective of both a ‘community social work model’ and a ‘cultural advocacy’ perspective and suggests these are the most successful social work perspectives working with marginalised Gypsy communities.Less
Around 10 and 15 million Roma live in Europe, where cultural diversity is among the European Union’s officially declared values. However, the Roma are not recognised as representatives of this idea, but have become the European “Other”, perceived as a threat to the dominant society both with their nomadism and their settlement. Roma “otherness” was, and still is, seen in explicit forms of racism in the past (geographical persecution, assimilation strategies, genocide, sterilization) and more implicit forms in the present (nimbisms, ignorance, special school placement). The article looks at these aspects of Roma oppression but also points to examples of good practice from the perspective of both a ‘community social work model’ and a ‘cultural advocacy’ perspective and suggests these are the most successful social work perspectives working with marginalised Gypsy communities.
Laura Penketh
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307082
- eISBN:
- 9781447312123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307082.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
For well over a decade there has been a marked increase in hostility towards Muslim communities in Britain, and Islamophobia has emerged as a particular form of modern anti-Muslim racism. This ...
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For well over a decade there has been a marked increase in hostility towards Muslim communities in Britain, and Islamophobia has emerged as a particular form of modern anti-Muslim racism. This chapter draws on research that was carried out with Muslim women in the North of England to assess questions of Islam, gender and identity in modern Britain. It examines the impact of rising levels of Islamophobia on the lives of Muslim women, and their understanding of and responses to, rising levels of racism. There is a focus on issues of culture and identity, and the reasons why women choose to wear the hijab. The chapter also explores the ways in which social workers can, with insight and understanding, practise in a non-discriminatory and non-oppressive manner when intervening in the lives of Muslim women and their families.Less
For well over a decade there has been a marked increase in hostility towards Muslim communities in Britain, and Islamophobia has emerged as a particular form of modern anti-Muslim racism. This chapter draws on research that was carried out with Muslim women in the North of England to assess questions of Islam, gender and identity in modern Britain. It examines the impact of rising levels of Islamophobia on the lives of Muslim women, and their understanding of and responses to, rising levels of racism. There is a focus on issues of culture and identity, and the reasons why women choose to wear the hijab. The chapter also explores the ways in which social workers can, with insight and understanding, practise in a non-discriminatory and non-oppressive manner when intervening in the lives of Muslim women and their families.
Ulrich Baer
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- October 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190054199
- eISBN:
- 9780190054229
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190054199.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter places Frederick Douglass in the pantheon of America’s Founding Fathers because the orator, statesman, and former slave exercised his natural right to free speech without waiting for the ...
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This chapter places Frederick Douglass in the pantheon of America’s Founding Fathers because the orator, statesman, and former slave exercised his natural right to free speech without waiting for the courts or legislator to grant this right to him. Douglass argues that disputing the humanity of an interlocutor does not qualify as speech as intended by the First Amendment. The chapter shifts the focus from free speech as American democracy’s bedrock principle to the equally critical and inalienable principle of equality. The discussion includes the concept that free speech must be rooted in equality, poses the question of whether free speech depends on one’s legal status, and reaffirms that inherent humanity is not up for debate.Less
This chapter places Frederick Douglass in the pantheon of America’s Founding Fathers because the orator, statesman, and former slave exercised his natural right to free speech without waiting for the courts or legislator to grant this right to him. Douglass argues that disputing the humanity of an interlocutor does not qualify as speech as intended by the First Amendment. The chapter shifts the focus from free speech as American democracy’s bedrock principle to the equally critical and inalienable principle of equality. The discussion includes the concept that free speech must be rooted in equality, poses the question of whether free speech depends on one’s legal status, and reaffirms that inherent humanity is not up for debate.